The NRA has always been the biggest scam on earth. It is an arm of the Republican party, just like the National Right to Life Coalition, Fox News, the Federalist society, and some others. The right wing has discovered that they can flog an issue like gun control to death and lots of really stupid people will buy memberships and send in money to protect them from anti-gun legislation. Same with abortion. Same with the constitution.

Lower middle class whites send money to the NRA and the people who run it pay themselves huge salaries for mostly just fear mongering. Most of the money ends up in Republican campaigns.

The idiocy of americans just knows no bounds. No one is going to take anyone's guns away. There are probably a half billion guns in the US. There are not enough liberals on the planet to collect them all.

I wish I could think of a stupid issue and then defraud lower middle class whites out of their money. I'd be a millionaire in the good old republican way -- fraud.

"The NRA's relentless work to protect Second Amendment rights, even in the wake of recent deadly shootings, has drawn criticism from groups that advocate gun control and nonviolence."

Not to take anything away from this very interesting profile of the NRA, but that (from the RSN email I got with the link) is about as banal of a statement as I've ever read.

As a 'higgerant furriner who hopes to return to my more rational countrie(s) (but with formerly very violent histories themselves) someday, I have decided to accept that the medievalist USA is unlikely to see any meaningful gun-control legislation passed in my lifetime, so I just go about my business unarmed and intend to remain so (it was never part of my upbringing but self-defense was, as my dad was a judo and boxing instructor when in the British army) in the hope the some over-armed reactionary nutcase that I may have happened to have pissed-off by trying to debate with then rationally and have silenced with reason, doesn't take it into their swollen-with-ha te skulls to pot me from a safe distance.
And to those who keep chucking the word "Fascist" and "Fascist State" around, you have no idea what nor where you are howlin' about. The NRA is a powerful part of the "Divide and Conquer" mentality encouraged by the Corporate State led by the Rethugs and Tea-bugger ignoramuses who love to send others off to war to cement in place a shaky "Pax Americana". When I lived in Franco's Spain and Suharto's Indonesia, most of the poor -who were the majority, just couldn't afford guns but in Spain at least, had them anyway (for sustenance hunting).
The more heavily armed private citizens become, the more of an excuse the state has for militarizing their cops. Try going up against an fully armed and armored troop carrier with your li'l ol' AK-47s!

Recently I spoke to two Tea Party people who argued that they needed guns if they ever needed to "take back" our country since we used guns to win our independence from Great Britain. They forgot history. The first war was against a king and put the power of the people into the hands of the people. I asked how they were going to use their gun. Shoot their neighbors on the way to the polls if they disagree with them? No comment Back then it was one shot then reload. Today a pull of the trigger kills dozens. Concerned sportsmen, help work for proper gun control and registration. Give our law enforcement officers help. Who needs dozens of guns in the hands of individuals other than the gun makers who reap millions in profits.

The NRA keeps telling us that guns aren't responsible for all these shootings, people are. So the question they need to answer is how do we keep people like the ones who have done the shootings from getting guns? All the guns involved in these shootings have been legally obtained from Columbine on to the four cops killed in Mississippi. Even the guns that the narcos used to kill the DEA agent were obtained legally under US law because there were no laws about who can buy guns and what kind of guns they can buy.

So, NRA. How do we stop these people from getting guns?

I am not NRA but have guns. I vote too. So we cancel each other out.